Do you know what angers me? The fact that you can’t catch up to light even if you go at a decent rate. Light will always escape from you at 3X10^8 m/s.

Anyway… back to the aliens and brains… Why aren’t aliens coming in contact with humans? My theory is that the aliens do not want to come in contact with us is because they’re from the future. They genetically shrunk in body size, lost all hair and muscle etc. and is left with a giant brain. Another way is genetic engineering to become aliens. If brain like aliens invade crap brain people, there would never be a future civilization of brained aliens, and then, the human record would say never to go back in time and invade earth filled with little brained humans when we are in the future and become aliens

Its a good idea for all of us to train our brains because it is mentally healthy and you can live forever… (im not kidding)

Since I seem to be on an art and music kick today I thought I'd highlight a pretty darn cool thing Joshua Bell did.
Cognitive Daily and The Washington Post have the real stories but here's a little snippet:

Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, was asked the same question. What did he think would occur, hypothetically, if one of the world's great violinists had performed incognito before a traveling rush-hour audience of 1,000-odd people?

"Let's assume," Slatkin said, "that he is not recognized and just taken for granted as a street musician . . . Still, I don't think that if he's really good, he's going to go unnoticed. He'd get a larger audience in Europe . . . but, okay, out of 1,000 people, my guess is there might be 35 or 40 who will recognize the quality for what it is. Maybe 75 to 100 will stop and spend some time listening."

So, a crowd would gather?

"Oh, yes."

And how much will he make?

"About $150."

Thanks, Maestro. As it happens, this is not hypothetical. It really happened.

"How'd I do?"

We'll tell you in a minute.

"Well, who was the musician?"

Joshua Bell.

"NO!!!"

Bell made "$32 and change"

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Many famous artists and musicians have had the perception of their own art altered by abnormal physical or mental changes. Critics and historians have often credited these changes as major sources of creativity. Insanity and Drugs seem to usually be the most cited and obvious candidates but very often something a lot more vanilla, like hearing or vision loss, can have the greatest impact on an artists art.

Probably the most famous case of an artist (in this case a musician) losing the one sense that was the most important to their work is Ludwig Van Beethoven. Over the course of the last 20 years of Beethoven's life he became progressively more deaf and with this more socially isolated, being forced to carry on conversations with a little notebook. We know from his letters to family and friends that his loss of hearing was personally devastating and isolating. In one letter to Carl Amenda, in Latvia, he writes "My most prized possession, my hearing, has greatly deteriorated. When you were still with me, I already felt the symptoms but kept silent." His loss clearly had a great impact on his life:

He then writes a testament in Heiligenstadt stating that his condition has driven him to despair and suicidal thoughts. Only morality and music keep him from killing himself. He complains that his hearing condition is hopeless, and although naturally sociable, that he has had to withdraw from society. "How could I possibly admit to an infirmity in that one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than in others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession have or ever have had.... [The humiliation] drove me to despair...I would have ended my life. It was only my art that held me back."[source]

A great debate has arisen on how Beethoven's deteriorating hearing and mental health impacted his compositions, even in Beethoven's own time people were asking him about this directly but it seems that Beethoven didn't really buy that his deafness was a great source of creativity.

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The Internet offers a valuable opportunity for the public to screen themselves for depression. This is the conclusion of a study published today in BMC Psychiatry, which demonstrates that a Chinese online tool for assessing depression is both accurate and